IBM GC23-7753-05 manual Post-Installation Tasks on Windows, Working with the Installation

Chapter 3. Post-Installation Tasks on Windows

Review the following information after installing IBM Informix Dynamic Server.

v“Working with the Installation”

v“IDS Program Group” on page 3-2

v“Initializing and Starting the Database Server” on page 3-3

v“Database Server Configuration After Installation” on page 3-4

Working with the Installation

After installing IBM Informix Dynamic Server, determine how much of the database server setup the installation application has completed and what actions you must do before putting the server in production.

The installation sets up a database server that is ready to use and can run on your system automatically. But you may still want to perform some basic enhancements before you put the server in production. These tasks show you ways to control the way IDS runs on your system.

If have completed a more advanced installation of IDS, these post-installation tasks might be required in order to work with the database server.

Tip: When you initialize a server, a shortcut is added to the Start menu. To run commands for an initialized server, click Start → All Programs → IBM Informix Dynamic Server 11.50 → servername → .

The following tasks are covered in the next sections of the documentation:

vStarting the database server manually.

vSetting up the database server to start whenever Windows is launched.

vStopping the database server.

Two IDS features that require post-installation configuration are the following:

–Global Language Support (GLS) is a feature that enables you to configure the database server to use a locale other than the default locale, which is U.S. English. For more information on how to create databases that use the diacritics, collating sequence, and monetary and time conventions of a different language, see the IBM Informix GLS User’s Guide.

–IBM Informix Storage Manager (ISM) is a feature that can be used for ON-Bar backup-and-restores. See the IBM Informix Storage Manager Administrator’s Guide for more information.

Installation Automatic Actions

Before you begin manual post-installation tasks, it is helpful to know some of the major tasks the installation application has done. A typical installation (and possibly a custom installation, depending on your choices during setup) performs the following actions to make the database server ready to run on Windows:

vConfigured and installed the database server as a Windows service.

vCreated an informix user account and an Informix-Adminadministrative group.

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